Here we are back in Tokyo for the last time. We are wrapping things up and soon to come home. It is Sunday afternoon and we are lounging around at Cliff and Marg's place before we head home on Tuesday. We will leave here around 6PM and arrive in Edmonton around 4:15 on Tuesday, wow wouldn't it just be quicker to go in reverse two hours?!? It will be a long of travelling but we will have some good friends at the other end as we will head into Camrose to spend a few days before I return up to FSJ for Easter weekend. This Friday was Marg's birthday and we celebrated if with lot's of laughter as there usually is when we are together with them. We have been so blessed by Cliff and Marg whilst here in Japan. She has done a good chunk of the cooking for us since Phil and Sue left a while back. The Lord has been at work in my life over these last few months. This trip has been a good get-away for me to slow down, put alot of business aside and start reprioritizing my life. 
I have been on the go now straight from one thing to the next for the last few years, and I believe this time has been a blessing from God to straighten out some of the bad habbits I have developed while never having a steady lifestyle to count on. Since We came and even long before, God has been stressing the importance of prayer on my life. I realized I was preaching prayer so it has been time to pull up my bootstraps and start prying more regularly. I have begun to do a more deliberate morning prayer and devotion. This has been a bit tough for those of you who know me I'm sure you've figured out I love mornings....... But it has been going well none the less. Daily prayer and readings in the word are what ground us to our convictions and commitments for the Lord. This has been an amazing trip for Flo and I and PS we still are friends after spending everyday together since January 10. I am so glad the Lord and Flow have given me the opportunity to broaden my horizons and come to Japan.
In case your anxiously wondering about what we got done with the cabin I will now inform you. Flo worked on many different cabins during our stay. He tiled beautiful entry ways in about half a dozen cabins and a hearth around Cliff's firplace which had to be ripped out after Kerosine spilled all over the floor soaking into the wood and needing replacing. As far as cabin 5 I am happy with what we accomlished. It is not finished yet and there will be a fair amount of work to come but my goal has been accomplished. When we started and through out much of the rebuilding process there was never a fine line on what needs to be done, it just does. So my main objective if nothing else was to get the cabin to a place where, when we leave the people after us can just finish it without trying to figur out how and where and what would be done. 
We insulated using a variety of North American and Japanese insullation. There were many different types of walls and ceiling spacing, some 16" oc and some 2' oc and some 18" oc center which was actually a spacing in Metric, all this just to use up as much materials that they already had as possible. We put a nice Laminated Beam in and I wanted wood ceilings so that the beam could be finished and tie in with the rest of the ceiling. It worked out beautifully. I used prefinished Ceader T&G for the ceiling I love it! The Next person will do all of the drywall and then the finishing. This will most likely be in the charge of Nate our new friend. He was here for a few months earlier this winter and has now returned to spend 1 year taking over Randy's old job running the rebuilding of Team Center cabins. He is a young guy like us and we had a great last week as we got to know him. One last Onsen last Wednesday before coming to Tokyo this weekend, wonderful as always. 
Dear supporters you have been such a huge blessing to Flow and I as we have glided through our Time in Japan. Your prayers have made all the difference here. There is much God is doing here and there is much he will do in the future please continuing for the salvation of the Japanese people.
Love Josh
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